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Aleixo Joaquim da Silva, 50, recounts an incident in a Copacabana neighborhood where he was discriminated against by a white woman. da Silva's only part of a growing movement in Brazil, a country of 190 million people -- it has the world's second-largest black population, behind Nigeria -- to turn back centuries of pervasive and largely unchallenged racism. Carl Juste/Miami Herald